Happiness
This article originally appeared in Forbes I’m writing this on the way back from my college reunion, feeling both energized and exhausted. I’m so glad I went, but also anticipating the tiredness waiting for me back home as it’s my daughter’s high school graduation week. You get the picture… This reunion was entirely my choice.…
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A friend recently forwarded me an Instagram post making fun of those LinkedIn posts where someone relates a personal experience to business. You know the ones: “My toddler taught me about quarterly planning.” I felt so seen—and so called out. Because of course I do that. I’m constantly relating life to leadership. So I’m trying something different.…
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Most of us laugh at the Friends episode where no one can remember what Chandler Bing does for a living. (“Statistical analysis and data reconfiguration,” anyone?) But it made me wonder: do your kids — or even their friends — know what you do? This question hit me at a memorial for my best friend’s…
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As an executive leadership coach, I understand the challenges of a Zoom meeting-filled day. It can be draining to sit in front of a screen for hours on end, especially when our space may not look like the beautiful, spacious, and well-lit background you can see on my screen in this video (thank you, Dina…
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Do as I Say, Not as I Do! This infamous statement, if not spoken by most parents and leaders, certainly is an accurate reflection of the type of behaviors we want to cultivate in others. You want them to learn from your mistakes, not adopt your bad habits and to generally be happier and more…
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For the past few months, I’ve been returning again and again to this question, “How do you know when enough is enough? I will give you an example of what I mean. Over the summer, my kids were at camp and I put together two care packages for them. It involved a whole lot of…
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I’ve been reflecting recently on the nature of disappointment. The holidays this year fall into this category. . . unless you’re lucky enough to live nearby to a pod with your family, the chances are great that your holiday table looks very different from last year’s. Less family or more Zoom computers? It seems wherever you’re…
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For all those thinking about how this holiday is different and all the things that you won’t be able to do, you are not alone. When it comes to gratitude, the usual way is to make a list of all the things we are thankful for, which I imagine for many, has health at the…
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I read this interesting blog post by Seth Godin several months ago on what are Bonnie’s rules for being a better client of website design services. They include gems like the following: White space is your friend Be open to things you didn’t imagine Nothing takes a second Tell me the problem, not the solution Then I…
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The past two weeks I’ve been traveling with my family through Europe, wonderfully disengaged from work and business mode. It’s the “It’s Monday so it must be Holland, it’s Tuesday so it must be Italy,” type of trip. I wanted to give my brood a sense of Europe in the hopes that they will return later on their own…
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